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Asked: 2026-06-16T05:20:59+00:00

This is all driving me crazy here. $now = time (); gives me the

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This is all driving me crazy here.

$now = time (); gives me the timestamp right now.

Question:

does: $today = strtotime(date("Y-m-d")); give me the timestamp of seconds of today? starting from 00:00?

I’ve been trying to answer it myself by substracting $now with the total seconds elapsed since $today, but I’m getting a whole different amount.

EDIT

Im getting for today:

1355961600

and for now:

1356002627 (+ 1 second every second since I’ve posted this)

Since the difference is really small I think that should be it, but when I’m trying to calculate myself I don’t get the same amount. Might be the difference between my localhost time and real time here… You guys think this is it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    (it’s 12:15 now here):

    php > echo time() - strtotime(date("Y-m-d"));
44116
php > echo 44116 / 3600;
12.254444444444

    PHP 5.3.10, on Ubuntu 12.04

    time() will give the seconds from the Unix Epoch (Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC) until “now”. strtotime(date("Y-m-d")) will give the seconds from the Unix Epoch until 00:00:00 this morning. Subtract those and you get the seconds elapsed today.

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